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Amazon.co.uk Review
Want to build an empire without all the usual bloodshed? Try Roller Coaster Tycoon, which puts you in total control of a theme park, managing every detail from ride development to rescuing lost guests.
A simulator in the style of SimCity, this game has a simple enough concept: build a park attractive enough to draw in hoards of tourists and then separate them from their hard-earned money. This is accomplished by researching and building rides, along with amenities, gardens and decorations. Once you have your infrastructure and the staff to maintain it, it's time to sit back and watch the funds roll in, all in hopes of building an even bigger rollercoaster somewhere else!
The big draws in a theme park, the coasters are expensive and flashy. They lure in thrill-seeking guests prepared to pay top dollar for a wild ride. RollerCoaster Tycoon even allows you to design the coasters yourself, a finicky but ultimately rewarding operation.
Despite a clunky interface and the usual simulator drawbacks--such as long waits while you acquire funds for the next ride--Roller Coaster Tycoon is an utter gem of a game. Its soundtrack, a mix of calliope music and ride machinery, is mixed with the sound of guests squealing with delight and terror as the coasters hurl them around. The sound mix is joyfully evocative, and you can almost smell the cotton candy and the popcorn.
Best of all, you can play in this theme park for hours without once losing your children or friends, getting sore feet or experiencing motion sickness. --Alyx Dellamonica
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Design and build the biggest, best and scariest rides ever seen in any theme park. Create over 50 designs from the traditional "Wooden Rollercoaster" to the high-tech "Steel Corkscrew" and the terrifying "Reverse Freefall"--all featuring accurately simulated motion dynamics. Fund the research and you'll get the greatest rides current technology is capable of; then charge the top prices to your visitors.
But it's not just about building roller coasters--you've got to look after all your guests, including the less adventurous by providing the complete range of "family" ride entertainment such as miniature railways, boat hire and mazes. Build food and drink stalls with rest facilities; hire costumed entertainers for the kiddies and create a park landscape that's not only fun but also appealing to walk through. Remember, you can own the best roller coaster ride ever but, if the visitors don't have a decent path to get there, you'll get no takers and no profit.
Success is not just a matter of building state-of-the-art rides; it's how you structure the park with themes, colours and landscaping that will help your guests enjoy the experience enough to come back and pay for more.
RollerCoaster Tycoon gives you the UPS, but also the DOWNS: why should people come to your park? Are the rides too expensive? Have you built enough food stalls? Do your amazing rides have a habit of breaking down too often? Climb or fall, boom or bust, you are in charge of it all, making sure the rides are safe, finding out what your guests are thinking and giving them what they want--for the right price!
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10 of 10 people found the following review helpful
After buying the sequel to this game, Rollercoaster Tycoon 2, I figured nothing could beat it. I was wrong. Infact, the orignal game - this very one, is better than its sequel, simply because the main element which all of the greatest ever gaes have incorparated - simplicity!
Without the expansion packs, Rollercoaster Tycoon will appear to be quite a basic game from the level selection screen. But this is only the begining. A nice easy first level with get you into the rhythm of the game which can take a little while - remembering what all the tabs at the top of the screen do. But soon, it becomes second nature.
Things that require you to really take care of your park are things like hiring "Handymen" to clean up litter, sick (from people) etc. An enetertainer might be a good investment to put at the park entrance, or you can hire Mechanics to fix and inspec rides. Or maybe the park benches have been broken - Better hire some security guards!....
Creating Rollercoasters couldnt be easier once your familiar with the system, and its so so fun when you have plenty of room and money to use. A nice way to build is to send your rollercoaster twisting round the park, with barell rolls, Camera sections, loop-the-loops, in-line twists and more. Or you could be more classic and make a railway that goes right round your park - with stations in between! Or why not even put 2 tracks together so that one train goes one way, and the other in the opposite direction? The possibilites are endless.
As I stated in the title, this game "really" does need the 2 expansion packs - "Loopy Landscapes" and "Added Attractions" packs (Added attractions on Amazon but rare in shops now)to bring out the most of the game. Indeed, with these two packs, you have, what I would consider, the perfect Rollercoaster game, from over 4 different game catergories, from Beginner to the Loopy Landscapes. The extra rides are impressive and creating and lovely park of your dreams wont be a problem once you completed the "objective" for that scenario. And after doing this, its up to you. Start the next level? Continue building this park? You can have just as much fun continuing completed parks, because by then your really rolling in the ££££ !
So, on its own Rollercoaster Tycoon is quite a simple game, but I would deffo reccomend the extra packs for the full atmosphere!
Without the expansion packs, Rollercoaster Tycoon will appear to be quite a basic game from the level selection screen. But this is only the begining. A nice easy first level with get you into the rhythm of the game which can take a little while - remembering what all the tabs at the top of the screen do. But soon, it becomes second nature.
Things that require you to really take care of your park are things like hiring "Handymen" to clean up litter, sick (from people) etc. An enetertainer might be a good investment to put at the park entrance, or you can hire Mechanics to fix and inspec rides. Or maybe the park benches have been broken - Better hire some security guards!....
Creating Rollercoasters couldnt be easier once your familiar with the system, and its so so fun when you have plenty of room and money to use. A nice way to build is to send your rollercoaster twisting round the park, with barell rolls, Camera sections, loop-the-loops, in-line twists and more. Or you could be more classic and make a railway that goes right round your park - with stations in between! Or why not even put 2 tracks together so that one train goes one way, and the other in the opposite direction? The possibilites are endless.
As I stated in the title, this game "really" does need the 2 expansion packs - "Loopy Landscapes" and "Added Attractions" packs (Added attractions on Amazon but rare in shops now)to bring out the most of the game. Indeed, with these two packs, you have, what I would consider, the perfect Rollercoaster game, from over 4 different game catergories, from Beginner to the Loopy Landscapes. The extra rides are impressive and creating and lovely park of your dreams wont be a problem once you completed the "objective" for that scenario. And after doing this, its up to you. Start the next level? Continue building this park? You can have just as much fun continuing completed parks, because by then your really rolling in the ££££ !
So, on its own Rollercoaster Tycoon is quite a simple game, but I would deffo reccomend the extra packs for the full atmosphere!
5 of 5 people found the following review helpful
By A Customer
For the first week or so, RollerCoaster Tycoon is flawless. It's extremely addictive and great fun to play. You can easily waste away an hour of your day playing it without even realising. It's also pretty funny (in a morbid kind of way) if your punters drown, or one of your rides flies off the track and kills everyone on board. But after a while it does start to get a little dull. The fact that the areas for you to build a park are so small is also quite annoying. There's a brilliant selection of rides to choose from, and it's fun to build your own dream rollercoasters. But after you've spent ages building the fastest, tallest and most intense ride you can possibly muster, to see the punters all stay away for fear that it'll be too intense is very, very, very annoying. To sum it up, this is a great game and is loads of fun to play, but it's not perfect. I'd recommend anyone to buy it, but I'd just warn them that it does have some flaws.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
By A Customer
When you have some cash to spend,look no further than Rollercoaster.When I got my hands on this game I was wandering if it would be as good as people said it was.When i firstplayed the game i could only count this money well spent.This game is a masterpiece.This is so much better than Theame Park World. -There are 25 scenarios -Lots of kinds of rollercoasters including wooden,steel,inverted(where your feet dangle),vertical and many more. -There is so many rides that give you a thrill such as Log Flume,Go Karts,Launched Freefall(playstation ride),Top Spin. -There are gentle rides too such as merry go round,spiral slide,Dodgems,Boat Hire. -Water ride,s too such as water slide,River Rapids,Boat Hire,Log Flume. -There are lots of stalls such as toilet,burger stall,pop corn stall -you can build rides underground. -Advertise your park.
On my opinion buy it.Don't forget the Expansion Pack.
Most Recent Customer Reviews
3.0 out of 5 stars
vista compatable?
i had this game a long time ago loved it, now i want to but it again but am wondering whether or not it will run on a vista computer. Can anyone help me?
Published on 21 Dec 2010 by rollercoaster tycoon and vista?
5.0 out of 5 stars
fun game
i already had this game and my ex burrowed it and never gave it back, what can i say apart from I LOVE THIS GAME, its a fun game for the whole family anyone can play it and the... Read more
Published on 8 July 2009 by J. Richardson
4.0 out of 5 stars
Rockin start for RCT!
Well, this game is too much of a legend to ever be forgotten. The graphics are excellent for a game of that size. The finance tracker is very easy to understand. Read more
Published on 21 Sep 2005
5.0 out of 5 stars
RCT the best game ever
Ever since i played rct for the first time i loved it, you have so much control out of a theme park which in real life would be hell to run, you get all the excitment with out all... Read more
Published on 16 Feb 2005
5.0 out of 5 stars
RCT the best game ever
Ever since i played rct for the first time i loved it, you have so much control out of a theme park which in real life would be hell to run, you get all the excitment with out all... Read more
Published on 16 Feb 2005 by "dance_of_eternity_2000"
4.0 out of 5 stars
Too slow!
I love this game. I think it's a brilliant idea, I like the different parks with different objectives and find it highly addictive. Read more
Published on 21 Nov 2004
5.0 out of 5 stars
Check this game out!!!!!!
Anyone who never has this game check it out!!!
It's the best strategy game including RCT2
And it's not that good as RCT2 but RCT1 is still very good as
well The XBox... Read more
It's the best strategy game including RCT2
And it's not that good as RCT2 but RCT1 is still very good as
well The XBox... Read more
Published on 17 Jun 2004 by A Harrington
3.0 out of 5 stars
Good, but there's more to life than Log Flumes
Very similar to Theme Park in both idea and content, this is very good, without being brilliant. The game starts by giving you a pretty basic park, sometimes empty, sometimes with... Read more
Published on 1 Oct 2003 by A. Broadhead
5.0 out of 5 stars
hours of addictive fun
ROLLERCOASTER TYCOON is an excellent game. It always leaves you wanting to just build one more rollercoaster or just one more shop. Read more
Published on 17 Sep 2003
5.0 out of 5 stars
Great
Roller coaster tycoon has got lots of features including ice cream stands, pop corn stands and ausome roller coasters. Read more
Published on 23 July 2002 by "insumoth20"
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